Tweeting via Pidgin on Ubuntu

Pidgin is a multi-featured instant messaging desktop client that is very popular among Linux users. It supports a wide range of chat networks like Yahoo!, AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, and IRC. You can even send and receive SMS (Text Messages) for free via Pidgin. So if it can do all these, does it support everybody's favorite micro-blogging platform Twitter?

--Yes it does. Thanks to a plugin called microblog-purple you will now be able to send and receive tweets via Pidgin.

For Ubuntu users, here's a simple tutorial on installing this Twitter plugin on Pidgin:

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Only you need to KDE.4.2http://tinyurl.com/KDEtwitterPidgin thank him and knew twituxWe have an rpm for Mandrivahttp://microblog-purple.googlecode.com/files/pidgin-microblog-0.2.0-1olea.i386.rpmFollow it by the way in twitter (I'm hack3)Very grateful for doing a great job

This plugin stopped updating on an Asus EeePC 701 using the Eeebuntu 2.0 Base operating system. Terminal gives this error:"Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ppa/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/Release Unable to find expected entry deb-src/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed release file?)""Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead."

Is there some way to fix this? Or is tweet-via-Pidgin not going to work on Eeebuntu?